Mason Fitch Cogswell

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Mason Fitch Cogswell (1761–1830)^[1] was an American physician who pioneered education for the deaf. Cogwell's daughter, Alice Cogswell, was deaf after the age of two, prompting Cogswell to jointly establish the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.